The House speaker asked the agency last year to send cash from the Democrats' 2022 climate law to his district. Republicans are seeking to repeal large portions of that law.
The debt limit fight arose in mid-December after President-elect Donald Trump demanded at the eleventh hour that Republicans include it in the government spending deal.
Speaker Mike Johnson quietly gave Rep. Nancy Mace a victory in her quest to ban transgender women from using the ladies' bathrooms on Capitol Hill. In the Congressional Record published on Jan. 3, Johnson officially implemented a policy stating that “all single-sex facilities—such as restrooms,
He’ll lead the GOP-led House in the new Congress. The bad news: He’ll lead the GOP-led House in the new Congress.
S.C., expanded on why he changed his vote in favor of Speaker-designate Mike Johnson's re-election on "The Story."
"I'd say there's a 70% chance Mike Johnson is going to be speaker ... because that's just the way the swamp works," Congressman Thomas Massie said.
The New Republic's Greg Sargent has been doing some analysis of President-elect Donald Trump's personnel decisions and has come to the conclusion that Trump is poised to "screw over" congressional Republicans.
Johnson, of Louisiana, has been working diligently to prevent defeat, spending New Year’s Day at Mar-a-Lago as he positions himself alongside Trump. The speaker often portrays himself as the “quarterback” who will be executing the political plays called by the “coach,” the president-elect.
Thune sat down for an interview with the Washington Examiner that marked his first with a print outlet since assuming his new role as Senate majority leader.
President-elect Donald Trump emerged from a meeting with Senate Republicans Wednesday night insisting that, whether it’s in one bill or two, his agenda will get enacted — but his comments made clear that Republicans still haven’t settled on their strategy for getting it done.